Tuesday morning and the real gambling begins. In a few hours I will have my hands on a copy of bullet storm. Sure some may call that a safe gamble, but there is always a little risk with a new IP. If I get it soon enough you might even see an impression post later. Damn might actual get serial gamer around this joint.

Speaking of bullets and storms. I went the Amazon route for the game, something I don’t do often. The deal they had was hard to pass up. Basically it will go down like this. I paid 60.99 USD for bullet storm. On top of some in game bonuses I will also get 20 USD back off my next purchase. So my plan is to pre-order HomeFront from Amazon. Using the 20 dollars off that will knock the price down to around 40 USD. Meaning I will get 2 brand new titles with bonus goodies for about 100-102 USD. Plus it allows me to completely avoid the greasy counter monkey’s at Game Stop. I call that a win. I am sure this is news to almost no one. I am probably the second to last guy to jump on the Amazon train. My job then is to tell the last guy about it.

So the poor Denver Nuggets finally sent Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks. First off it appears even with a Russian billionaire running the show, no one wants to play in New Jersey. Second I am sure Knicks fans are just delusional with hope at this point. Let me be the first to shatter that dream for you. Even with Carmelo you aren’t going to win the title. I still expect the usual suspects to be in the finals. That of course will be Boston versus LA. I just don’t think Miami has it in them to top Boston yet. Although just to see all the Lebron haters choke I would love to see Miami win the title. If nothing else the NBA will have me watching come the playoffs. That is no small feat as I hate basketball and always will.

Speaking of sports that aren’t video games. I want to share a little pet peeve of mine. I hate people who are obsessed with stars in sports. Topping that list would be ESPN’s Colin Cowherd. I actually like listening to guy on radio, until he starts in on the star shit. This is just another reason I loved watching the San Franscisco Giants win the World Series last year. Okay so you could make a case for Tim Linescum as a star, maybe. Outside that, the Giants were a bloody team and that made me smile big. It amuses the shit out me, how these clowns like Cowherd warble on and on about stars. Somehow forgetting that these stars are playing “team” games. Don’t get me wrong I love watching great athletes play. My real problem is with the dark side of the star obsession. See idiots like Cowherd will discount any team or league that doesn’t have enough big names. So they rail against small conference teams doing well in the BCS or NCAA basketball tourney. It upsets the star apple cart when the little guy busts through the door. I will always root for the little guy, if for no other reason than to watch star obsessed morons have aneurysms over it. The chaos of the excepted norm being destroyed is always entertaining.

There I got a morning post done. Now I can go hide in the bushes for the rest of the day. Waiting to tackle the fucking UPS guys with my copy of bulletstorm. Later